Graveside services for Earlene Carol Schafer will be at 2 p.m. Friday, October 30, 2020, at the Homestead Cemetery with Rev. Jeremy Parker officiating. Interment is under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.

Earlene Carol Bensch, daughter of the late Earl and Letha Gaylord, was born September 28, 1946, in Seiling, Oklahoma, and passed away October 23, 2020, in Alva, Oklahoma, at the age of 74 years and 25 days.

After Earlene graduated from Seiling High School, she attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University and received her bachelor’s degree in home economics.

On August 14, 1971...